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My faith in sky poker has gone
I just played in a dym event 1st hand pair of kings pair of queens and a pair of jacks dealt thats really going to happen in proper game STINKS
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This year at one of the tables four players saw a flop, they were all holding pocket pairs; AA, QQ, 44 and 33.
Incredibly the flop came down Q43, so three of the four had flopped sets to go ahead of the AA.
The chips went piling in and all four ended-up all-in on the flop.
If that's not bad enough the turn was the case Q, and the river was the case 4, the final board read Q43Q4.
What is your point though??
In a dym i'd be folding jacks 1st hand anyway if loads of action happened before me.
All online poker is slightly fixed, stuff like that does happen in real life but not very often, compared to very often online. its because of rake.. the more money in the pot = more rake for sky.
So thats why theres constantly coolers and bad beats very often because more money is likely to go into the pot which makes sky more money.
That would only work for cash games. Not that I believe it to be true anyway.
Plus when people give examples like : I have got my money in good all day and the last 5 times people have hit runner runner on me it means nothing.Even if you Posed these hands there is no way of showing it was the last 5 times you got your money in.
I play alot of live poker aswell and whilst i mentioned, these things DO happen yes.. just not as often as online.. i guarantee that if you play the same amount of hands online and then live.. you will get considerably more coolers and bad beats online
OK post all 6 and I will 50% believe you.
Also in your original post you said "but the last 5 times i've been so far in front the opposition has had to hit 2 runners for a split and got there 3 times on the trot" So 2 times out of the 5 you must have held right? So how can it be your last 6 times when 2 of those times you won?
3 times on the trot now 6 times on the trot . This proves my point exactly.
if you believe its rigged then don't play on the site.
You cant surely think this is all coincidence and variance? As i've said previously.. I know variance is part of poker and you DO get coolers and bad beats.. But they don't happen as often as online..
Simply.. Online poker sites increase variance for more money. That is why you could play the same amount of hands live and online.. and in the end you will find there are considerably more coolers/bad beats from online poker.
It makes sense.. and whether people chose to believe it or not is their choice.. But it wont stop me playing online poker because i enjoy playing and like i said you can still win, because the variance is for EVERYONE and not just select people.. 1 hand you get beat bad and it can be reversed the next.
Live you might play 20-30 hands per hour, online you'll play 80-100 per hour, and could be playing anything between 1 and 20+ tables, so yes it happens more often online cos you see more hands in the same space of time.
@Kaymac: Yeah i know theres a maximum on how much rake they take per hand: Think its 7.5% of the pot upto the max of £1.80.. But that still means the more money in the pot = more rake / Big cooler hand = max rake
Believe me.. I wish online poker was completely random, But everything i've said just makes too much sense for me to think otherwise, i mean.. why wouldnt online poker sites want to increase variance to get more money?? If online is just as random as live poker, then i can honestly say i've never ever run bad playing live poker. Yes you get the odd cooler but nothing huge compared to online
Yes its true no one has evidence to back it up.. But no one has evidence to prove its NOT fixed either...
The best you will come to the truth is by thoroughly running tests between sites and live poker and comparing.
I am not saying a bad beat doesnt hurt and believe me I have had them just as much as anyone else. But I dont start blaming SKY or if its live the dealer because I have played enough hands to know its Poker.
Usually the people bringing this up are on the whole losing players and are trying to find any reason for this apart from themselves. ( I dont play many freerolls unless i forget to deregister so I am not sure we have played on many of the same tables)
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I'm sorry but if not agreeing with someone and putting forward points to counter there argument is trolling then I will definately stop.
And if you think it is trolling then I have obv offended you which wasnt my plan so I will stop.
And you havent offended me, I just cant see why your trying to ridicule my argument with posts about fairys